Vania Pereira da Silva, a seamstress and member of the Unidos de Padre Miguel samba school, points to a wall damaged by stray bullets inside her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020.

Aug. 10—Have you been experiencing Samba no pé (Samba of the foot) lately? Craving some pão de queijo but haven't been able to find a place that serves it? Or have you simply been itching to learn a ...

Samba Houston, in partnership with the Brazilian Women Foundation and Houston Latin Fest, and the support of the Consulate-General of Brazil in Houston, will host a Brazilian Carnival Parade to ...

After two years without its frenetic festival, sultry samba and towering floats, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival parades Friday. A member of a carnival samba school performs during a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – For the very first time ...

The cancellation of Foo Fighters’ concerts has had a ripple effect. It even cost the local Brazilian samba group Amigos do Samba a gig. When the Foo Fighters dropped out of Lollapalooza in Sao Paulo, ...

Samba Fest’s return to Mortensen Riverfront Plaza on Saturday, May 2, doesn’t just signal a ninth consecutive year of Brazilian music and culture in downtown Hartford: It also marks the beginning of ...

Samba dancers turn heads and excite the crowd with their traditional Brazilian dances at the Utah Brazilian Festival on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. (Thomas Madrigal) What started as a way for Matilde ...

Currently celebrating its 43rd year, the downtown festival features continuous music, dance and cultural performances on 10 stages. Each year, iFest presents world music and dance to demonstrate how ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Racial pride and the fight against racism in Brazil were the themes of samba group presentations and street parties on Monday as Rio de Janeiro's flashy parades entered their ...

Beth Carvalho, variously known as the “Godmother of Samba” and “Queen of Carnaval” in her native Brazil, is far less known in this country. But that didn’t matter at all Sunday night, when she ...